George Cross has always wondered why his mother left him when he was a child. Now she's back in his life, he suddenly has answers - but he finds himself struggling to deal with it. When a disturbing case lands on his desk, he's almost thankful for the return to normality. The body of a monk is found in a woodland near Bristol. Nothing is known about Brother Dominic's past, which makes investigating difficult. How can Cross unpick a crime when they...

In a village in South West England, an elderly man is found dead in his home. The angle of his neck says he fell down the stairs. The stab wound on his body tells a different story. In the weeks before his murder, Alistair Moreton changed. He usually kept himself to himself, but people swear there was someone in the house when they checked on him, that there was a reason he wouldn't let them inside. Moreton made people's lives a misery, from his neighbours...